For this people's heart has grown dull. And their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and they understand with their hearts, and turn so that I should heal them.'

So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

But he refused, and went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

Should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?'

And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

And he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him.

so that 'seeing they may see but not perceive, and hearing may hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.'"

For there is nothing hidden, except to be revealed; nor is anything secret, but that it should come to light.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,

and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.

He strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

So they went out and preached that people should repent.

They also had a few small fish; and having blessed them, he commanded that these also should be set before them.

Should we pay them, or should we not?" But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why do you put me to the test? Bring me a denarius, and let me look at it."

And when they crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots for them to determine what each man should take.

But why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world.

Then her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat.

But I will show you whom you should fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear him!

Now when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you are to say;

So he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?'

Nevertheless I must journey today and tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.'"

He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'"

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

So Pilate gave sentence that their demand should be granted.

And he said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

You do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them."

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me should not remain in darkness.

For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast"; or, that he should give something to the poor.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

as you have given him authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to all those you have given him.

I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one.

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingship is not from here."

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled, "Not one of his bones shall be broken."

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

"Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Therefore it is my judgment that we should not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take along one who had deserted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote to them our decision that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication."

who ought to be here before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.

but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of their repentance.

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, down to this very day."

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by any human court; I do not even judge myself.

But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

Each one should remain in the state in which he was called.

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; so that from now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living from the gospel.

the other man's conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience?

For if a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, let her cover her head.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.

Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn; and one must interpret.

the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as even the law says.

But all things should be done decently and in an orderly way.

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;

but at the present time your abundance should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be equality.

We intend that no one should blame us about this liberal gift which we are administering,

Though if I should boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should depart from me.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed!

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Now before faith came, we were bound under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

But you, brethren, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

Nor was it that he should offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood not his own.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. For before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.